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authorSriram Murali <sriram87@gmail.com>2013-10-10 20:24:53 +0000
committerSriram Murali <sriram87@gmail.com>2013-10-10 20:24:53 +0000
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- fix comments on vector type legalization git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@192389 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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-rw-r--r--include/llvm/Target/TargetLowering.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/llvm/Target/TargetLowering.h b/include/llvm/Target/TargetLowering.h
index cd95a73..0130e07 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Target/TargetLowering.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Target/TargetLowering.h
@@ -1473,10 +1473,12 @@ public:
if (NumElts == 1)
return LegalizeKind(TypeScalarizeVector, EltVT);
- // Try to widen vector elements until a legal type is found.
+ // Try to widen vector elements until the element type is a power of two and
+ // promote it to a legal type later on, for example:
+ // <3 x i8> -> <4 x i8> -> <4 x i32>
if (EltVT.isInteger()) {
// Vectors with a number of elements that is not a power of two are always
- // widened, for example <3 x float> -> <4 x float>.
+ // widened, for example <3 x i8> -> <4 x i8>.
if (!VT.isPow2VectorType()) {
NumElts = (unsigned)NextPowerOf2(NumElts);
EVT NVT = EVT::getVectorVT(Context, EltVT, NumElts);